Description
As a Team Lead - 3D Environment Art at Ubisoft Montreal, you will lead a team of modelers and texture artists and ensure the delivery of environment assets necessary for the production of Rainbow Six Siege maps.
You will be responsible for the quality, progress, and predictability of the team's work.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor the modeling and texture team, and participate in recruitment, onboarding, and artist retention
- Hold individual meetings, coaching sessions, and performance evaluations, and identify artist development opportunities
- Plan and distribute workload according to team capacity, priorities, and delivery commitments
- Track tasks, bugs, and progress in Jira, maintain an up-to-date task list, and inform relevant teams of delivery status and risks
- Develop and track visual and texture production plans with the level art lead, based on map requirements
- Support artists to ensure models and textures meet project artistic, technical, and production requirements
- Review models and textures, provide constructive feedback, and verify visual consistency, optimization, and integration
- Oversee modeling, texture creation, and final touches until delivery, within technical constraints and deadlines
- Coordinate with level art, artistic direction, production, and technical teams to address needs, dependencies, and production challenges
- Improve work methods and production by promoting knowledge sharing, visual asset reuse, and problem-solving
Qualifications:
- Experience in video game environment art, including modeling, texture creation, or visual production
- Experience in team leadership, mentoring, or artist coordination in video game development
- Participation in a commercial game production or equivalent experience
- Knowledge of video game production pipelines and content creation methods
- Ability to organize work and prioritize tasks while supporting team development
- Strong communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
- Problem-solving abilities and experience with tracking or collaboration tools like Jira, Perforce, or equivalents
- Experience on a high-budget game in operation and knowledge of Rainbow Six Siege are assets